从苏联发射第一颗人造地球卫星开始,在本世纪60年代,美、苏两国的遥感技术是发展控制侦察系统,到70年代才在民用方面有较快发展。80年代,除了美、苏两国以外,中国、法国、印度和日本等国都有了自己的遥感卫星。80年代遥感的发展可归纳为 Since the Soviet Union launched the first man-made earth satellite, in the 60s of this century, remote sensing technology in the United States and the Soviet Union developed the control and reconnaissance system. Only by the 1970s has the civil aviation developed rapidly. In the 1980s, apart from the United States and the Soviet Union, China, France, India and Japan all had their own remote sensing satellites. The development of remote sensing in the 1980s can be summarized as